NEON RGB Camera Imagery

projects/neon-prod-earthengine/assets/RGB/001
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Catalog Owner
National Ecological Observatory Network
Dataset Availability
2013-01-01T00:00:00Z–2023-05-17T15:30:40Z
Dataset Provider
Earth Engine Snippet
ee.ImageCollection("projects/neon-prod-earthengine/assets/RGB/001")
Tags
airborne forest highres neon neon-prod-earthengine orthophoto publisher-dataset rgb vegetation

Description

High resolution Red-Green-Blue (RGB) orthorectified camera images mosaicked and output onto a fixed, uniform spatial grid using nearest-neighbor resampling; spatial resolution is 0.1 m. The digital camera is part of a suite of instruments on the NEON Airborne Observation Platform (AOP) that also includes a full-waveform LiDAR system and the NEON Imaging Spectrometer. In the orthorectification process, the digital imagery is re-mapped to the same geographic projection as the LiDAR and imaging spectrometer data that is acquired simultaneously. The resulting images share the same map projection grid space as the orthorectified spectrometer and LiDAR imagery. Since the digital camera imagery is acquired at higher spatial resolution than the imaging spectrometer data, it can aid in identifying features in the spectrometer images including manmade features (e.g., roads, fence lines, and buildings) that are indicative of land-use change.

See NEON Data Product DP3.30010.001 for more details.

Documentation: NEON DP3.30010.001 Camera imagery mosaic Quick Start Guide

Tutorial: Intro to AOP Data in Google Earth Engine Tutorial Series

Bands

Resolution
0.1 meters

Bands

Name Units Min Max Description
R dn 0 255

Red

G dn 0 255

Green

B dn 0 255

Blue

Image Properties

Image Properties

Name Type Description
AOP_VISIT_NUMBER INT

Unique visit number to the NEON site.

CITATION STRING

Data citation. See NEON Data Policies and Citation Guidelines.

DOI STRING

Digital Object Identifier. NEON data that have been released are assigned a DOI.

FLIGHT_YEAR INT

Year the data were collected.

NEON_DOMAIN STRING

NEON eco-climatic domain code, "D01" to "D20". See NEON Field Sites and Domains.

NEON_SITE STRING

NEON four-digit site code. See NEON Field Sites.

NEON_DATA_PROD_URL STRING

NEON data product url. Always set to: https://data.neonscience.org/data-products/DP3.30010.001.

SENSOR_NAME STRING

Make and model of the camera sensor: "Phase One D8900", "Phase One IQ180", "Phase One iX-RS 1000", "Phase One iXM-RS 150F".

SENSOR_SERIAL STRING

Serial number of the camera sensor: "EH021537", "EH021656", "EH021554", "FT010031", "MM010175", "MM010176", "YC030119", "YC030129".

PROVISIONAL_RELEASED STRING

Whether the data are Provisional or Released. See NEON Data Revisions and Releases.

RELEASE_YEAR INT

If data are released, the year of the NEON Release Tag.

Terms of Use

Terms of Use

All data collected by NEON and provided as data products, with the exception of data related to rare, threatened, or endangered (RTE) species, are released to the public domain under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 "No Rights Reserved". No copyright has been applied to NEON data; any person may copy, modify, or distribute the data, for commercial or non-commercial purposes, without asking for permission. NEON data may still be subject to other laws or rights such as for privacy, and NEON makes no warranties about the data and disclaims all liability. When using or citing NEON data, no implication should be made about endorsement by NEON. In most countries, data and facts are not copyrightable. By putting NEON data into the public domain, we encourage broad use, particularly in scientific analyses and data aggregations. However, please be aware of the following scholarly norms: NEON data should be used in a way that is mindful of the limitations of the data, using the documentation associated with the data packages as a guide. Please refer to NEON Data Guidelines and Policies for detailed information on how to properly use and cite NEON data, as well as best practices for publishing research that uses NEON data.

Citations

Citations:

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Code Editor (JavaScript)

// Read in the NEON AOP RGB Camera Image Collection
var rgb = ee.ImageCollection(
  "projects/neon-prod-earthengine/assets/RGB/001");

// Display available images in the RGB/001 Image Collection
print('NEON RGB Camera Images', rgb.aggregate_array('system:index'))

// Specify the start and end dates and filter by date range
var startDate = ee.Date('2021-01-01');
var endDate = startDate.advance(1, 'year');
var rgb2021 = rgb.filterDate(startDate, endDate);

// Filter by NEON site name (see https://www.neonscience.org/field-sites/explore-field-sites)
var rgbABBY_2021 = rgb2021.filter('NEON_SITE == "ABBY"').mosaic();

// Add the RGB Camera layer to the Map and center on the site
Map.addLayer(rgbABBY_2021, {min: 40, max: 200, gamma: 0.65}, 'ABBY 2021 RGB Camera Imagery');
Map.setCenter(-122.341, 45.75, 15);
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